Simplify! Simplify! Simplify!

One and all,

Not a great deal to report as life has been relatively quiet. Polley picked up a sexually-transmitted disease - - my cold! Otherwise we have been very well. Since our friends, Ray and Mary Anne left, life has been easier and less frantic. Polley and I are promising ourselves that we are going to really slow down and take advantage of our last month in paradise. WE are getting to the beach each day for about an hour, then strolling back to La Fuente for a drink and home for lunch. We have actually backed off eating out. We so enjoy the kind of appetizer dinners, getting salsa, ceviche, and guacamole from the grocery store and more exotic things like paté, cheese, salami, etc from a wonderful little deli called Mikey's. Of course, there is the occasional "Happy Chicken" (pollo felice) as well. Instead of dinner out we have been heading down to the beach about 6 in the evening and watching the sunset. That, of course, means another photo


Or as we say to one another: "AFGPVS"

Monday evening it was drinks right on the beach, and last night it was 2 x 1 martini night at El Patio de Mi Casa. We never do martinis, but last night was an exception. Lovely evening in the courtyard with a full moon overhead. What could be better?

Yesterday at noon we grabbed a city bus with Neal and Judy Higgins to go up to El Rio BBQ. We had been there on Fridays when there was music, and last Sunday for the buffet. We wanted to experience it on just an uneventful day. It was truly lovely. There were about 30 people there (compared to 240 at the buffet), scattered in various places along the beach. We sat under two umbrellas and just chatted, drank and had a delicious lunch. It was so peacful. No music, just the sounds of birds and the river running by. I think Polley and I are going to try and get up there once a week on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. It is so different from the constant hustle and bustle of downtown PV. It also serves to remind us to continue to work on simplifying our own lives. PV proves to us we can do it. We are going back up river tomorrow with our friends, George and Pat and two of their friends, John and Molly. We want to introduced them to this wonderful world just 15 minutes from the tourist craziness of the beach. I will report on our day later.